VS Arduino - No automatic version update

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Red Baron Member Offline Posts: 106 Location: Germany Joined: Jul 29^th, 2015	No automatic version update Aug 21^st, 2017 at 1:52pm	Print Post
	Hi, I'm using VM 1.1706.25 and Visual Studio 2105 Community. Today I found that there are newer versions of VM. In former times I got an a hint in VS that is a new VM version. There was a button I could click to start the download and installation. On the VM web site I found that there are two newer version of VM but I got no update hint. When I dowloaded the actual file and tried to install it, I got a mesage like "this extension is already installed". I got a German message. May be the correct English one ist some what different. What's wrong? King regards RedBaron


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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: No automatic version update Reply #1 - Aug 21^st, 2017 at 5:47pm	Print Post
	Hi, The update and management of extensions is a Visual Studio feature not a Visual Micro feature. In Tools>Extensions and Updates there are some tabs. The "Installed" tab shows the currently installed version of visual micro and also provided a checkbox to determine if you want automatic updates or not. There are also some global settings to control updates for all extensions in (tools>options) The "Online>Visual Studio Gallery" tab shows available version and provides an option to download/update. If VS has broken and you don't see the ability to update in the Online tab then uninstall from the "Installed" tab then install again. Your settings will be preserved.


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Red Baron Member Offline Posts: 106 Location: Germany Joined: Jul 29^th, 2015	Re: No automatic version update Reply #2 - Aug 21^st, 2017 at 8:47pm	Print Post
	Thx for the fast answer. Looking at Tools>Extensions and Updates I see the latest version . But in Tools > Options > Visual Micro > General > Version a different one is displayed (see picture). May be there is somenthing incorrect.

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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: No automatic version update Reply #3 - Aug 21^st, 2017 at 9:15pm	Print Post
	The tools>option is back-end api version and does not relate to the release notes. Before visual micro became an extension it was the only version number. The version in the gallery, release notes and on the extension pages is the only important version.


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Red Baron Member Offline Posts: 106 Location: Germany Joined: Jul 29^th, 2015	Re: No automatic version update Reply #4 - Aug 22^nd, 2017 at 6:53am	Print Post
	Hi Tim, in this case you should delete the incorret one. This will avoid misunderstandings in the case of questions or error messages. Kind regards RedBaron Edit: There are two entries with the wrong number: category "System" and category "Version". You should replace the version number with a hint to the gallery. People like me who have been working with the software for a long time are used to look at the "Tools > Options" tab.
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Tim@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 12076 Location: United Kingdom Joined: Apr 10^th, 2010	Re: No automatic version update Reply #5 - Aug 22^nd, 2017 at 9:57am	Print Post
	Hi, Ignore the one in tools>options. I don't have time to mess with it.


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